This is another interesting Victorian
photograph taken on a Fair Dayor market day around 1888.
The view is looking north along Broad Street
towards the Long Bridge over the River Severn. Like the picture of the
livestock market in High Street, Newtown of around
the same date, there are a number of young children
wandering around who may well have being playing truant from school !

Broad
Street
Newtown
around 1880

Many photographs
like this one taken in the late Victorian period are a rich source of
information about life at that time because they
were able to record so much detail.
The early cameras used to take pictures
like this were very large, and were made of polished wood with brass fittings
and an adjustable leather bellows. They did not contain a little roll
of film like modern cameras, but used big glass
plates and each plate just held a single picture.